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Allen Ginsberg class on William Carlos Williams and prosody - Part 1

by: Ginsberg, Allen

Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics

Publication date: 1976-06-28 00:00:00

Usage: Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial

Topics: New American Poetry, Black Mountain School, beat movement, Buddhism, consciousness and literature, objectivism

First half of a class by Allen Ginsberg on William Carlos Williams and prosody. Included are discussions on Williams's poems: "Thursday," "To Elsie," "Horned Purple," and "The Term." This class also covers the importance of Williams to Robert Creeley and Williams's translations from Chinese. (Continues on 76p051, currently not available.)

Addeddate: 2004-06-08 11:35:25

Boxid: OL100020212

Identifier: naropa_allen_ginsberg_class_on_william

Numeric_id: 5763

Run time: 0:57:06

Taped by: Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics

Type: sound

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Reviewer: Blank - - December 24, 2004
Subject: No Ideas But In Things

Excellent class on WCW. Allen's insights into each poem is sharp and concise.

HUM!
:20: No Ideas but in things. Reads WCW's "Smell"
- familiarity with self=acceptance a la Whitman
- "Dance Russe"
4:29: Haikus: January Morning: a Suite
8:50: Thursday- giving up and social compassion
10:30: To Elsie
17:25: Horned Purple
19:30: Between Walls
26:20:Cezanne
33:12:A Sort of Song
to be continued

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